{"id":172,"date":"2009-09-25T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:00:12","slug":"department-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2009\/09\/25\/department-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Department retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first department retreat today. \u00a0I should have gone to the one at Brown when grad students were invited, but I skipped it &#8211; it was during one of my &#8220;I hate grad school and I just want to curl up and think about how I will never graduate&#8221; phases. \u00a0A topic for another day.<\/p>\n<p>But this was a faculty-only retreat &#8211; and certainly my first opportunity to participate in one. \u00a0After all the complaining I&#8217;ve heard from faculty (not at OSU! \u00a0I swear!) about such retreats, I expected an 8 hour meeting with coffee breaks. \u00a0But it was fun! \u00a0I already feel at home with my colleagues. \u00a0Lively debates, interesting ideas. \u00a0An hour was devoted to &#8220;how to advise grad students&#8221; aimed at educating the new faculty. \u00a0It was particularly comforting to know that many not-so-junior faculty were asking the questions I expect I will ask. \u00a0(Assuming I attract a grad student.)<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were a little daunting though. \u00a010 Ph.D. students? \u00a0At once? \u00a050 in career? \u00a0Really?<\/p>\n<p>Three of my colleagues also admitted to being arrested. \u00a0Multiple times each.<\/p>\n<p>I have so much catching up to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my first department retreat today. \u00a0I should have gone to the one at Brown when grad students were invited, but I skipped it &#8211; it was during one of my &#8220;I hate grad school and I just want to curl up and think about how I will never graduate&#8221; phases. \u00a0A topic for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}